Having already become embroiled in one row, Mrs Bercow then implicated herself in another by tweeting the name of a girl who allegedly ran away to France with a maths teacher.

She only deleted the tweet two hours later, despite repeated warnings from journalists on that she was breaching a court order.

Earlier this month, Lord McAlpine reached a £125,000 settlement with ITV after Phillip Schofield brandished a list of names and handed it to Prime Minister David Cameron during a live interview asking him to investigate them further.

The peer was also awarded £185,000 by the BBC following the botched Newsnight investigation into the alleged child abuse.

Last week, his lawyers confirmed they were still pursuing damages from Twitter users who wrongly tweeted or retweeted the libellous allegations.